Philippe-Antoine Magimel (1692 – 5 October 1772, Paris) was a French goldsmith and encyclopédiste.
He was the son of the master goldsmith Antoine Magimel († 1702) from Paris and Marie-Françoise Leblond (1667–1756). Philippe-Antoine Magimel was married to Elisabeth-Marguerite Descoties († 1770), the couple had two children Antoine-Edouard and Augustin-Simon Magimel.
He wrote the articles Orfèvrerie and Orfèvre for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot.
Réferences
- Frank A. Kafker : Notices sur les auteurs des 17 volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie (suite et fin). Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1990 Volume 8 Numéro 8, (p. 101)
- Généalogie de la famille.